Ok so I know a bit about this as I had the same exact thing happen to me in the past.<p>The reason this probably happened is that their business was getting a high % of chargebacks from paying customers, paypal is not a specialist payment provider that wants to handle what they consider high-risk business like that, so they block your account and hold your funds for 180 days and during that time keep processing chargebacks.<p>After the 180 days, Paypal will give you the remainder of the money back, so the title is clickbait, they <i>will</i> get back their money.<p>The best thing to do if you operate a business which gets a lot of chargebacks is to find a payment processor that is okay with that, when I had this issue I ended up looking at which payment processors porn sites used and picked one of them, which had no problems. That was a long time ago, so I'm sure there's more options now.